Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Kiffin Gish wrote: I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to one another using Samba. What is the best tool to create automatic central backups? For now I just want to make backups on disk

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Kiffin Gish wrote: I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to one another using Samba. What is the best tool to create automatic central backups? For now I just want to make backups on disk

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
> This information is very important, but you only say windows, but i > like to know wich one...? All...? >Because i want to try bacula+mysql-5 to backup 1 win2k3, 2 WinNT4 > and 1 Linux box. > I try once bacula on freebsd 5.4-p8 with bacula using some simple > tape drive and backup the win

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-10 Thread perikillo
On 12/8/05, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a = > > number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to o= > > ne another using Samba.=20 > > Advantage of Amanda, if I understand well, is that

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
> I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a = > number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to o= > ne another using Samba.=20 Advantage of Amanda, if I understand well, is that you don't need to install anything on your Windows machines.

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-08 Thread Bob Lee
Quoting Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a > number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to one > another using Samba. > Kiffin, I think you may run into some snags trying to use Amanda in a disk

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-08 Thread Martin Hepworth
Well I use amanda. It's DB doesn't need an external one like bacula so restores can be less troublesome. BUT it can't span tapes if a backup is larger than a tape It can use a virtual tape setup so it you have a nice big disk(array) you can backup to that. I'd say try amanda, if things ar

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-08 Thread Luke Dean
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Kiffin Gish wrote: I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to one another using Samba. What is the best tool to create automatic central backups? For now I just want

Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

2005-12-08 Thread Kiffin Gish
I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to one another using Samba. What is the best tool to create automatic central backups? For now I just want to make backups on disk but later using an